VIDEO: Space Station will fly over Charlestown at 9:40 PM

With a nice clear night in the National Weather Service forecast, tonight's two-minute overflight by the International Space Station over Charlestown should be pretty easy to see. The silent majesty of its movements never get old, at least to me.

About the only human space exploration left is the International Space Station. While we wait for humanity to once again reach for the stars, we get to see the ISS serenely cross our skies on occasion when timing, their orbital path and the weather cooperate.

The station will be visible for two minutes beginning at 9:40 PM with the ISS appearing at around 21 degrees off the horizon in the west-northwest. Its arc will take it to 47 degrees over the horizon as it crosses the sky to 46 degrees above the horizon in the south-southwest where it will seem to vanish.

We can see the ISS shortly after sunset and also shortly before dawn when the sun's rays hit it just right.

Thought for the day

“Charlottesville is a great place that’s been very badly hurt over the last couple of days. I own, actually, one of the largest wineries in the United States. It is in Charlottesville.”

Donald Trump, responding to a question whether he would go to Charlottesville to offer support and comfort as so many Presidents have done in the past.

Quick fact check: Donald Trump does not own the winery; his idiot son Eric does under the name Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC. And at 36,000 cases annual production, the winery is not even the largest winery in Virginia, never mind the United States.

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